(April 22, 2018 at 11:18 pm)Grandizer Wrote:(April 22, 2018 at 11:07 pm)henryp Wrote: What's your take on what i said? The idea that time is not linear, and our choice could be viewed as dictating what God knows?
The premise is that God knows what you do before you do it. But if God is operating outside of time, from that perspective, He'd just be viewing the choice you made without the concepts of 'before' and 'after'.
This would still completely invalidate the theist notion of free will, regardless of the nature of time and regardless of whether parallel worlds are a thing. God knows what you will inevitably do in this or that specific timeline because the choices are hardcoded into the system. If choices were made freely in the libertarian sense of the term, then there's no logical way God could 100% know what you end up doing in the future.
Here's my time travel hypothetical.
Bob video tapes Larry choosing between a banana and an orange. Larry chooses an orange of his own free will. Bob sends the video tape back in time to himself. Bob now knows Larry will choose an orange.
Does Bob's knowledge of Larry choosing an orange make him choose the orange? Or does Larry choosing an orange of his own free will cause Bob to know Larry will choose the orange?
